Email Service Guide has been an interesting project for us. We’ve learned a lot, and it been in touch with a lot of interesting people. However, we were never able to reach the level of traction we were expecting (and hence not able to make up for the expenses of having on-staff bloggers).

As a result, we are more or less shutting down the blog and deprecating the service. We may decide to revive it at a later point in time, but at the moment, we do not have enough resources in-house to keep up with producing quality content.

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Today I first heard about Opolis Secure Mail. I’ve you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I’m interested in email security (here and here). Unfortunately email encryption is a bit cumbersome today. That’s why I took a closer look at Opolis.

After browsing their website (which looks like a cheap copy of Apple’s website) I found it to be somewhat interesting. The closest thing I could think off is Hushmail combined with a branded email client. I was intrigued and had to give it a shot.Read the rest of this entry »

Many, if not most, companies are either moving services to the cloud, or at the very least discussing this internally. Moving your email to the cloud might have many benefits. The most significant benefit is probably cutting costs by not having to allocate resources on maintaining these servers.

If you are a Microsoft-shop and are currently running an on-site deployment of Microsoft Exchange, you might be tempted to switching to Microsoft’s (fairly) new BPOS service. The pricing for BPOS is a bit higher than Google Apps, with a price-tag at $10/user/month (compared to Google Apps Premium at $50/year), but if you want to stay with Exchange you might consider this cheap.

A few weeks back it was announced that reMail had been acquired by Google. We were somewhat surprised by the announcement. What does Google plan to do with reMail? Was it a pure talent acquisition? (Gabor Cselle, the founder of reMail, is an ex-Googler.)

Today an even more surprising announcement was made: reMail is going open source! I’m still not sure what this means. Are Google open sourcing reMail because they don’t care for it (they just wanted Gabor back), or is it part of a bigger strategy? Perhaps Google is planning to embed the technology behind reMail in Android. If so, it might make sense for them to first open source the technology.

This announcement leaves me with a lot of questions. Hopefully we will see the reMail technology built into an upcoming version of Android. I’m all for open source, but I’m just confused about Google’s strategy.

In part one of the email marketing series, I gave a brief introduction on how email marketing can improve your customer relationships and promote sales. I also covered the different types of email marketing, and the advantages of building an opt-in list. In part two, I discussed a few reason why you should choose a third party email marketing website instead of mass-mailing yourself and then reviewed some of the more popular email marketing websites out there. In part three, I reviewed MadMimi, Aweber, Benchmark, iContact, and CampaignMonitor. In this, the final article of the series, I’m going to be giving you 25 tips on how to get the most out of your email campaign.

In part one of the email marketing series, I discussed how email marketing can improve your customer relationships and promote sales. I also talked about the different types of email marketing, and the advantages of building an opt-in list. In part two, I discussed a few reason why you should choose a third party email marketing website instead of mass-mailing yourself and then reviewed some of the more popular email marketing websites out there. In this article I’ll be reviewing a few more options, including MadMimi, Aweber, Benchmark, iContact, and CampaignMonitor.

MadMimi (Free for less than 100 subscribers, as low as $8 per month)

The appeal of MadMimi is apparent right from the start: the website is bright, the layout is simple and intuitive, and setting up an account is easy and requires no credit card for the free account type. Users who are unfamiliar with email marketing will enjoy the extensive theme and template selection, phone and email support, and the helpful video tutorial that guides you through creating your first email campaign using MadMimi’s module-based, WYSIWYG message editor/composer. Import your mailing list, confirm your email address, and you’re ready to send out your first campaign.Read the rest of this entry »

Atmail 6.1.3 was announced just a few hours ago. While you might wonder why we report so much about every release of Atmail. The reason is simple, Atmail is one of the most innovative email solutions on the market. Contrary to their larger competitors such as Exchange and Zimbra, Atmail a big bloatware that requires 4GB or RAM to handle 20 users. That is one of the main reason’s why I like Atmail.

As Atmail keeps adding new features, I really hope that they won’t fall in the bloatware-trap and add leave the light and minimalistic path they’re currently on.

In part one, I discussed what email marketing can do for you, the types of email marketing, differences between opt-in and opt-out lists, and a few ways to build your own opt-in list. In part two, I’ll be giving a few reason why you should choose as 3rd party email marketing website instead of mass-mailing yourself and then I’ll be reviewing some of the more popular email marketing websites out there.

Why Choose a Third-Party Email Marketing Solution

It may seem like a good idea to simply email your newsletter to your contact list yourself using your own email client, but there are a number of drawbacks to this approach.

First, while programs like Outlook and Thunderbird may not limit how many messages can be sent per day, most internet service providers do. Some ISPs limit customers to as few as 1000 unique recipients per day and webmail providers can be even stricter, with some only allowing 25 unique recipients per day. When using a third-party email marketing website, you’re only limited by your budget.

I’m actually surprised nobody has posted anything about this online, but it’s more or less possible to write an IMAP proxy for Facebook using their API. Sure, you could not write a full-fledge IMAP implementation, but you could get it to perform the most basic tasks, like reading messages (and therefore also store them locally).

I got the idea of making an IMAP proxy (or bridge, parser or whatever you want to call it) back in in August when Facebook announced new API calls to access the mailbox. Upon reading them, I realized that it could be used for a lot new things, such as this. Since then, I’ve been waiting for someone take on the challenge. I’ve been keeping an eye open for a projects in this area, but haven’t seen any. Therefore, I thought I might at least raise some interest and perhaps someone will take on the challenge.

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